I'll give it a try again. I did find your website but came to a spot that I couldn't get past. I'll start again with a clean server and let you k now when I get stuck. Thanks. Nice to know I’m not alone.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan DeKok Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 2:12 AM To: FreeRadius users mailing list Subject: Re: Freeradius in an AD environment on opensuse server Murray, Elizabeth [DNR] wrote: > I’ve been struggling with this for months. That's always a bad sign. If something goes wrong... ask. > I found a doc HOW TO on the > opensuse website. It says I have to use Samba in order to have the > users authenticate. For some reason every time I get that thing > configured, it works for a few days then…it’s gone. Computers aren't magic. If data disappears, it's because something is making it disappear. > Can I set up freeradius to authenticate with ldaps and be secure? No. Active Directory pretends to be an LDAP server. But it doesn't supply clear-text passwords when LDAP clients ask for them. So... the only way for FreeRADIUS to authenticate against AD is via Samba. > I would really be grateful for any help you could give me. I now have > the radius server back to it’s original configuration….clean. So I’m > ready to do your bidding. See my web site for configuring FreeRADIUS && AD. http://deployingradius.com/documents/configuration/active_directory.html Alan DeKok. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html

